23 July 2010

drink the young wine

last weekend, my old college roommate invited me to lost&found, an afternoon of "love, life and community" hosted by 88 featuring live art and music from the dc area.

i was most impressed with painter jeremy arn...



the outdoor/indoor party also featured 4traits, a team of artists that collaboratively draw your portrait in four 5-minute sessions. i started off chatting on one end of the "assembly line" with yen, a graphic designer; four dings and twenty minutes later, i was talking mastiffs with brad, a professional dogwalker, while he put the finishing touches on my face. while the concept was more a play on surrealist drawing games than highly innovative, there was something refreshing about sitting for a 4trait - sort of "exquisite corpse" meets speed dating.

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